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How do you remove paint from kitchen cabinets?
I have painted my kitchen cabinets twice in last 4 years and I'm ready to change the color again. However since I have 2 layers of paint on the cabinets it's starting to chip, so I want to paint them again but I think I need to remove all that other old paint. How do I go about?
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- I had old cabinets that had several coats of paint and I used a heat gun. Kind of like a hair dryer, but heated a lot hotter. The paint bubbled up and I scraped it off with a thingy like a putty knife. Came off pretty good. You can also use that chemical paint remover too.
- If you want to do it cheap, buy some Citristip at your home center, it is much less obnoxious than traditional MEK paint stripper. Apply in the morning, reapply at midday, and strip in the afternoon. More than one attempt may be necessary. Citristip also has a wash to remove it from the surface. This all very labor intensive but cheap to do yourself. A much easier alternative to to take the doors to a professional stripper who will dip them and return slick as a whistle. Not cheap though
- It's a lot of extra work and may not be necessary. Possibly sand the chipped areas then lightly sand the whole area. Vacuum then wipe whole area to remove bits then paint sanded chipped areas with undercoat let dry then paint with the new paint hopefully not too different a colour so chipping won't be so obvious in future.
